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the charter of English liberties granted by king john under the threat of civil war.
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was the capital of Virginia and remained so until 1698.
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The first representative goverment in North America.
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established orimarily for religious freedom and secondarily for financial profit.
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a written agreement composed by a consensus of the new settlers arriving at New Plymouth.
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the basic law of the Conneticut colony.
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popular uprising in the Albemarle section of Carolina to protest the British Navigational Acts.
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also called the bloodless Revolution.
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It stated that certain acts of James II were illegal and henceforth prohibited.
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19 men and women were convicted of witchcraft and was carted to Gallows Hill for hanging.
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aimed at a formation of a strong union of the colonies under one single goverment and directions.
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a series of wars between the British and French.
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closed lands north and west of the Appalachian mountains to settlement.
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enforced the collection of taxes on various goods including sugar to help raise revenue to pay off the British national debt which grew.
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requiered american colonist to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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an act for granting certain duties in the british colonies and plantations in america.
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a street fight between a "patriot" mob,throwing snowballs,stones,and sticks at a squad of British soilders.
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formed throughout the colonies as a means of coordinating action against Great Britian.
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launched the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston.
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Sons of Liberty boarded three British ships and dumped 45 tons of tea in the Boston Harbor.
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political protest in response to the Tea Act.
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series of laws sponsered by British Prime Minister Lord North and enacted in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party.
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brought together representatives from each of the colonies except ga,to discuss their response to the British "Intolerable Act".
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the first declaration of independence made in the thirteen colonies during the American Revolution.
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the delegates of the 13 colonies gathered in Philadelphia to discuss their next steps.
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the first directions from an entire colony instructing its delegates to the continental congress to vote for independence from Great Britian
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held to adress problems in governing the United States of America.
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announced that the thirtenn american colonies then at war with Great Britian regarded themselves as independent states and no longer a part of the British Empire.
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served as a bridge between the initial goverment by the Continental Congress of the Revolutionary period.
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treaty that officialy ended the Revolutionary war.
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allowed for sales of land in the northwest territory and set up standards for land sale that became precedents.
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was a armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts from 1786-1787.
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85 essays outlining how this new goverment would operate and why this goverment was the best choice.
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the western lands north of the OhioRiver, west of the Alleghenies and east of the Mississippi River who be settled and become states on a par with existing ones.
